On 6/5/07, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would /guess/ that in an emergency, they'd rather have access be a
phone call away rather than relying on the network being up.  Trying
to give someone an RSA key over the phone is not likely to be very
useful.

You wouldn't give them a key over the phone.  They'd have it in their
hand.  Anytime you can enter a root password, you could (conceivably)
enter a tokencode and PIN.  It's one of these little buggers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecurID

I found one on the pavement a couple of weeks ago.  Bummer for whoever
lost it.  I tried to call the Help Desks of various likely companies,
but no dice.

-todd


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